not to mention the possibility of cross-over disease. . one of the biggest (and scariest) causes of new disease is the development of a virus previously only viable in a non-human host, to the point that it can now take up board in a human host . . how can they prevent a previously un-sequenced pig virus from finding a way into the cells of it's cosy new human host? short of breeding sterile pigs with built in anti-viral encoding protiens or something:/
there was an episode a few years back where they transplanted babboon livers into two hepatitis patiens, both of whom died from the combination of 4 'hidden' viruses. . . one of which is homologous to HIV . . if they hadn't died so soon this could have caused a major epidemiological event with a new strain of HIV possibly entering our society. .
i for one don't want such a direct new pathway for virii being opened up, that's for sure. . .
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Maybe they could only use the speak and MATH, which is the unit which appears here.
not to mention the possibility of cross-over disease. . one of the biggest (and scariest) causes of new disease is the development of a virus previously only viable in a non-human host, to the point that it can now take up board in a human host . . how can they prevent a previously un-sequenced pig virus from finding a way into the cells of it's cosy new human host? short of breeding sterile pigs with built in anti-viral encoding protiens or something :/
there was an episode a few years back where they transplanted babboon livers into two hepatitis patiens, both of whom died from the combination of 4 'hidden' viruses. . . one of which is homologous to HIV . . if they hadn't died so soon this could have caused a major epidemiological event with a new strain of HIV possibly entering our society. .
i for one don't want such a direct new pathway for virii being opened up, that's for sure. . .